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by skywal_l 6mo ago
An interesting critique of the meritocracy/technocracy: The Rise of Meritocracy by Michael Young. Written in the 50s it's prescient to what has been happening since. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise
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by skywal_l 6mo ago
"Sincerity is the key to success. If you can fake it, you've got it made" -- Groucho Marx (probably)
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by skywal_l 6mo ago
> An 18 hour highspeed NYC to LA train would be amazing. Often I think of the cut intro scene for "Escape From New York" where Snake robs some sort of bank and then escape in the inter state subway[0]. That future is grim but
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by skywal_l 7mo ago
It was mandated because, in some cases, getting data from the patient is actually harmful. A CT scan is not benign. So to ensure that CT scans from manufacturer A could be read on a review station of manufacturer B, the DICOM standard was c
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by skywal_l 7mo ago
Contrary to windmills, which slows down the rotation of the earth.
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by skywal_l 7mo ago
Isn't there Ansaldo Energia too?
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by skywal_l 7mo ago
> USB-C charging—no more scrambling for AAA batteries Bear with me if you’ve already seen this comment, but I dug out my old TI-89 a while ago for some reason, and all I had to do was plug in four AAA batteries and it worked. If it had b
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by skywal_l 7mo ago
Interesting: https://baochip.com/ . I didn't know the concept of "Warrant Canary". [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
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by skywal_l 8mo ago
There must be a law of system design about this, because this happens all the time. Every abstraction creates a class of users who are powerful but fragile. People who build a system or at least know how it works internally want to simplify
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Reticulum: The Internet, Reinvented [video](youtube.com)
3 points by skywal_l 8mo ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 8mo ago
Visa bought Carte Bleue in 2011. Yep.
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by skywal_l 8mo ago
[2] You include pension, healthcare and education in this number. What would be the equivalent number in, say, the US if you were to include all this?
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by skywal_l 8mo ago
PF = Packet Filter
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by skywal_l 8mo ago
Yes, we need a posix of productivity tool. You want to work with a EU government, you have to use this and that open standards. This is the way to break that particular monopoly.
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by skywal_l 9mo ago
It's in the BBC's article.
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by skywal_l 9mo ago
Exactly, Pournelle's law in full force.
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by skywal_l 9mo ago
And does it mean the Virgin Islands revert back to Denmark?
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by skywal_l 9mo ago
Nice to see you on HN and thanks for webglfundamentals!
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by skywal_l 9mo ago
There is fundamental difference between Windows and AmigaOS is that you usually want to run Linux+wine on a the same hardware you would run Windows. That's why wine is not an emulator. Whereas, in the case of vamos, the AmigaOS hardwar
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
The only fact that there is a "CEO" of Firefox is in itself asinine.
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
> First they ship millions of new LoC to Firefox on a monthly basis so the engineering efforts are open for all the world to see. Who is they? You mean the thousands of unpaid developers?[0] [0] https://openhub.net/p/
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
You forgot CEO comp: 7.000.000 in 2022[0] [0]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990...
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
Do you realize what 1.300.000.000$ is? Say you invest most of it in a safe way to get you inflation + 2%. That gives you 26.000.000$ every year. You can pay 100 engineers with this. Firefox is a browser. Sure a browser is complicated but 10
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
I counter you with a Cleon engine[0] with 42 years. ;) But in the end an engine can be reliable but still be an environmental liability. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Cl%C3%A9on-Fonte_engin...
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Can Europe defend its frontier in the Amazon?(theguardian.com)
2 points by skywal_l 10mo ago|0 comments
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by skywal_l 10mo ago
> Who cares if we sell less champagne??!? Nobody, but it seems a lot of people care if we sell less german cars.
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
It's one of those game you start playing in the morning and when you want to make a little pause, you realize is 10PM.
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
For those understanding french, a little funny video about Duralex history made by Karambolage a few years ago: https://youtu.be/H9T7JCCDeCE?t=5s
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
Presentation at FOSDEM2022: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/fex/ A little old but still interesting.
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by skywal_l 11mo ago
Also "The Black Book"[0] of Michael Abrash who worked on Quake with Carmack. [0]: https://www.amazon.fr/Michael-Abrashs-Graphics-Programming-S...

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